Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Another year has passed, and it’s time to update my app defaults. A lot has happened in the world since Andrew, Martin, and Jason of Hemispheric Views listed their defaults for the first time. I’ve tried to ditch big‑tech companies and move my data and services to more open platforms, some of them self‑hosted. Indicated are unchanged entries (🔒) and updated entries (✨). I still use the various categories as written by Andrew:
Thursday, August 15, 2024
I think we now live in a time where people don’t really wonder about things like usernames anymore. But maybe some of you have wondered about mine? I’ve only been using esamecar for two or three years. Before that, I had a series of others, but for most services, I usually used the same one at the same time. I still somehow remember two of them. As a child or teenager, I naturally wanted a username that mainly sounded cool.
There is a kagi help document for Alfred and another one for Search Templates in Launchbar I used as a reference. It’s really easy to set up:
Menu bar / Index / Show IndexWeb / My Search Templates 1 -> add a new one&q=%son my system it’s in German, but you’ll figure it out ↩︎
Sunday, January 29, 2023
I still felt sickly, so I refrained from cycling. Hope that I get the curve then next week. 🍿 Watched Raymond & Ray (2022) - ★★★★☆ and enjoyed it. 🎙️ Listend to a bunch of different Podcasts: Accidental Tech Podcast: 518: Deconstructed iMac, Core Intuition: Episode 545: Lawful Evil, MeTacheles Tonspur: Return of the Mac - Ode an den Apple Macintosh, Playdate Podcast: Flipper Lifter, Playdate Podcast: Echoic Memory, Techmeme Ride Home: Tue 01/24 – ALL The Details On Apple’s Headset, AppStories: Imagining Apps for an Apple VR Headset, Launched: 54: Sofa - Shawn Hickman, Upgrade: 443: Core Variations, and Hemispheric Views: 076: Find Jason a House!
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Streak, this is the third time this year I’ve managed to write down what I’ve done during the week. If you’re interested in what it was like before, you can read about the first and second week. I have been very busy at work this week. So there was less to discover. I did a lot of walking with the dog (~ 50 km from Monday to Saturday so far), so at least I had enough time to listen to podcasts: 🎙️ I really enjoyed Really Specific Stories: John Siracusa.
Sunday, January 15, 2023
After all, this is the second time this year that I’ve managed to write down a bit what has been keeping me busy during the week. 🥳 😔 So, this was my first week at work and thus, unfortunately, again far too little time for things I really enjoy. (I’ll have to think about my work situation in great detail at some point). 🕹 Playdate: After the two pre-installed games on my playdate, the first two new games included in Episode 1 arrived for me on Monday: Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure and Boogie Loops.
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Sure, shortly after I’ve published the short list of non-work related macOS apps I really like it came to my mind, that I forgot the most important ones. But hey, I never claimed it was an exhaustive list 😇 So, I’ll just continue and list randomly some more apps, I enjoy using: Mela: “Mela is a simple, elegant and modern recipe manager that syncs with iCloud." I recently switched from Paprika, which is also a very good recipe manager.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Here is a short list of apps I use a lot under macOS privately (so not only work related) or I have recently discovered and think I’ll stick with them. Bunch: Bunch describes itself as “a macOS utility that uses plain text scripts called “Bunches” to automate context switching. It sits in your menu […]. Bunches can open apps, specific files, web pages, and more. For the Power Users, It also allows advanced scripting, system commands, and integration via a URL handler”.
Sunday, January 8, 2023
I was motivated by muhh’s blog entry to write down what was on my mind in the first week of January. I’m not sure yet if this will become something more regular, but I wanted to start putting something online more often anyway - more on that below. I’ve had the last two weeks off. The weather was bad, I had a cold 🤧 and therefore a lot of cycling wasn’t an option either (at least that’s what I told myself).
Saturday, January 7, 2023
I’ve been a happy owner of a playdate game console for a week now. I ordered it in July 2021 and finally received it a mere 1.5 years later. Since then I’ve really enjoyed the console. Every animation, every sound somehow expresses the joy and dedication that Cable Sasser and his team at Panic evidently put into the development of this – while rather expensive piece of hardware. I really like the first two games of Series 1 so far and they couldn’t be more different.